oy you are! What words you
use!"

"You don't like to be called a thief," said Henry, "though you are not
ashamed to steal, I see."

"Do, Miss Augusta, put the apples back," said Emily; "your mamma said
you must have but one, you know, to-day, and you have had one already."

"Hush, hush!" said Miss Augusta; "here's my governess coming back.
Don't say a word."

So saying, she slipped the apples into the bosom of her frock, and ran
out of the room.

"Where are you going, Miss Augusta?" exclaimed Miss Beaumont.

"Mamma has sent for me," answered Augusta; "I shall be back
immediately."

When Miss Augusta had eaten the apples, she came back quietly, and sat
down to play with Lucy and Emily as if nothing had happened. Soon after
the governess looked into her work-bag, and found that two of the
apples were gone.

"Miss Augusta," she said, "you have taken two apples: there are two
gone."

"I have not touched them," said Miss Augusta.

"Some of you have," said Miss Beaumont, looking at the other children.

"I can't tell who has," said Miss Augusta; "but I know it was not me."

Lucy and Emily felt very angry, but they did not speak; but Henry
would have spoken if his sister Lucy had not put her hand on his mouth.

"I see," said Miss Beaumont, "that some of you have taken the apples,
and I desire that you Miss Emily, and you Miss Lucy, and you Master
Henry, will come and sit down quietly by me, for I don't know what
mischief you may do next."

Now the governess did not really suppose that Mrs. Fairchild's children
had taken the apples; but she chose to scold them because she was not
afraid of offending their parents, but she was very much afraid of
offending Miss Augusta and her mamma. So she made Lucy and Emily and
Henry sit quietly down by her side before the fire. It was now getting
dark, and a maid-servant came in with a candle, and, setting it upon
the table, said,

"Miss Augusta, it is time for you to be dressed to go down to tea with
the ladies."

"Well," said Miss Augusta, "bring me my clothes, and I will be dressed
by the fireside."

The servant then went into the closet I before spoke of, and soon
returned with a beautiful muslin frock, wrought with flowers, a
rose-coloured sash and shoes, and a pearl necklace. Emily and Lucy had
never seen such fine clothes before; and when they saw Miss Augusta
dressed in them they could not help looking at their own plain frocks
and black shoes and feeling quite